Emily Dickinson (183086). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Five: The Single Hound
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| MARCH is the month of expectation, | |
| The things we do not know, | |
| The Persons of prognostication | |
| Are coming now. | |
| We try to sham becoming firmness, | 5 |
| But pompous joy | |
| Betrays us, as his first betrothal | |
| Betrays a boy. | |
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